Puzzles Quotes - Page 16

• We're in this strange age where we can't say 'I love you,' at least not sincerely. It's something where, if you simplify it, the whole point of trying to capture it would sort of make it dead. The fragmented thing can create a situation where the holes between the pieces of the puzzle can be filled with meaning, and thereby you get a greater sense of complexity or feeling.

  Christoffer Boe

  Love You, Feelings, Age

  "Fade to Black: Christoffer Boe". Interview with Darroch Greer, Millimeter, September 01, 2004.

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• Here I find a puzzle of great beauty: Canada works well in practice, but just doesn't work out in theory.

  B. W. Powe

  Practice, Work Out, Canada

  "Towards a Canada of Light". Book by B. W. Powe, 2006.

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• For the first time there was constructed with this machine [locomotive engine] a self-acting mechanism in which the interplay of forces took shape transparently enough to discern the connection between the heat generated and the motion produced. The great puzzle of the vital force was also immediately solved for the physiologist in that it became evident that it is more than a mere poetic comparison when one conceives of the coal as the food of the locomotive and the combustion as the basis for its life.

  Carl Ludwig

  Life, Science, Self

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• Loyalty cannot be too liberally insisted upon. Altruism in nature remains an exception. It poses a puzzle, being in prima facie conflict with the survival of the fittest and most selfish.

  Peter Birks

  Loyalty, Selfish, Survival

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• Tell the truth so as to puzzle and confound your adversaries.

  Henry Wotton

  Truth, Telling The Truth, Adversaries

  "Fiske WordPower: The Exclusive System to Learn, Not Just Memorize, Essential Words". Book by Edward Fiske et al., 2006.

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• My definition of an adventure game is an interactive story set with puzzles and obstacles to solve and worlds to explore.

  Roberta Williams

  Travel, Adventure, Games

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• It's the boredom that kills you. You read until you're tired of that. You do crossword puzzles until you're tired of that. This is torture. This is mental torture.

  Jack Kevorkian

  Tired, Blessing, Boredom

  "Between the dying and the dead: Dr. Jack Kevorkian's life and the battle to Legalize Euthanasia"‎ by Neal Nicol, Harry Wylie, (p. 247), 2006.

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• An adventure game is nothing more than a good story set with engaging puzzles that fit seamlessly in with the story and the characters, and looks and sounds beautiful.

  Roberta Williams

  Beautiful, Travel, Adventure

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• Marriage is very difficult. Marriage is like a five-thousand-piece jigsaw puzzle, all sky.

  Cathy Ladman

  Jigsaw Puzzles, Sky, Pieces

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• He will often have to scratch his head, and bite his nails to the quick. [To succeed he will have to puzzle his brains and work hard.]

  Horace

  Hard Work, Brain, Nails

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• Spending waiting moments doing crossword puzzles or reading a book you brought yourself.

  Marilyn vos Savant

  Book, Reading, Waiting

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• When you're in these movie deals and the studios are talking, they're putting business deals and packages together, but they're making calls based on previous relationships. They go, "Oh, let's call this actor because we did this with him, and he might like him. Does he like him? Let's piece them together." There's a brain behind that puzzle, and I want to be the brain.

  Kevin Hart

  Business Deals, Talking, Brain

  "Kevin Hart Talks ABOUT LAST NIGHT, Edging out Other Romantic Comedies, Pushing the Envelope, Balancing Comedy and Drama, and Improvising on Set". Interview on the Set, collider.com. September 24, 2013.

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• Hollywood can buy a lot of pieces of the puzzle, but the great thing is they can never buy word of mouth.

  Steve Tisch

  Hollywood, Pieces, Mouths

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• The world is the geologist's great puzzle-box; he stands before it like the child to whom the separate pieces of his puzzle remain a mystery till he detects their relation and sees where they fit, and then his fragments grow at once into a connected picture beneath his hand.

  Louis Agassiz

  Children, Science, Hands

  Louis Agassiz (1873). “Geological Sketches”, p.11

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• Just as dogs love to chew bones, the mind loves to get its teeth into problems. That's why it does crossword puzzles and builds atom bombs.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Dog, Mind Love, Teeth

  "The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment". Book by Eckhart Tolle, 1997.

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• The great god Ra, whose shrine once covered acres, is filler now for crossword puzzle makers.

  Keith Preston

  God, Religion, Acres

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• I know a lot of people connect with my story. Every night that I do shows, I get emails and texts and tweets about how my life story has helped change other people's lives. With my sobriety and what I went through. I don't do a whole bunch of songs, that from start to end talk about one particular thing. That's a missing puzzle.

  Shane Bunting

  Song, Night, People

  Source: 411mania.com

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• I wanted to play incredibly challenging, multifaceted characters. Because we are all a puzzle.

  Kate Winslet

  Character, Play, Challenges

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• I love to move like a mouse inside this puzzle for the body, balancing the wish to be lost with the need to be found.

  Billy Collins

  Moving, Wish, Needs

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• [Golf]is deceptively simple, endlessly complicated. A child can play it well, and a grown man can never master it. Any single round of it is full of unexpected triumphs and perfect shots that end in disaster. It is almost a science, yet it is a puzzle without an answer. It is gratifying and tantalizing, precise and unpredictable. It requires complete concentration and total relaxation. It satisfies the soul and frustrates the intellect. It is at the same time, rewarding and maddening. And it is without doubt the greatest game mankind has ever invented.

  Arnold Palmer

  Children, Golf, Simple

  Source: kellysgolfhistory.blogspot.com

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• Guy Picciotto had a really sound point: Live albums basically have bands playing songs that are available on studio records, and what example can you think of where the live album is better? What are the great live albums? I have live albums of bands, but I wouldn't listen to them for the most part. So we thought, instead of spending energy trying to puzzle out how to create a live record, let's just write another studio record.

  Ian MacKaye

  Song, Writing, Thinking

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• I used to think that cruelty required malice, but that is not true. Jeanine has no reason to act out of malice. But she is cruel because she doesn't care what she does, as long as it fascinates her. I may as well be a puzzle or a broken machine she wants to fix. She will break open my skull just to see the inner workings of my brain; I will die here, and that will be the merciful thing.

  Veronica Roth

  Thinking, Skulls, Long

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• After that, he tried to go upstairs through the broom cupboard, and then the yard. This seemed to puzzle him a little. But finally he discovered the stairs, all except the bottom on, and fell up them on his face. The whole castle shook.

  Diana Wynne Jones

  Yards, Castles, Littles

  Diana Wynne Jones (2002). “Wizard's Castle”

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• The monkeys solved the puzzle simply because they found it gratifying to solve puzzles. They enjoyed it. The joy of the task was its own reward.

  Daniel H. Pink

  Inspirational, Joy, Tasks

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• That’s what i love about poetry. The more abstract, the better. The stuff were your not sure what the poets talking about. You may have an idea, but you cant be sure. Not a hundred percent. Each word, specifically chosen, could have a million different meanings. Is it a stand-in ―a symbol for another idea? Does it fit into a larger, more hidden, metaphor? ...I hated poetry until someone showed me how to appreciate it. He told me to see poetry as a puzzle. Its up to the reader to decipher the code, or the words, based on everything they know about life and emotions.

  Jay Asher

  Talking, Ideas, Appreciate

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